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HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES,    May  2S,    1854.— Uid  on 

the  table  and  ordered  to  be  printed. 

[By  the  Chair.] 


MESSAGE  OF  THE  PRESIDENT. 

Richmond,  Va.,  Maj  88,  1864- 

To  the  House  of  Representatives  : 

In  response  to  a  resolution  of  the  House  of  Representatives  of  the 
15th  January  last,  I  herewith  transmit,  for  your  information,  a  com- 
munication from  the  Secretary  of  War,  covering  a  list  of  those  who 
have  been  retired  from  the  military  service,  **  in  accordance  with  the 
provisions  of  the  act  for  ridding  the  army  of  ignorant,  disabled  and 
incompetent  officers." 

JEFFERSON  DAVIS. 


COMMUNICATION  FROM  THE  SECRETARY  OF  WAR. 

Confederate  States  of  America, 
War  Department 


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Richmond,  Va.,  May  26,  1864 

To  the  President  of  the  Confederate  States : 

Sir  :  I  have  received  the  following  resolution  of  the  Houde  of 
Representatives,  adopted  on  the  15th  of  January,  1864,  and  referred 
by  your  Excellency  to  this  Department : 

**  Evolved,  That  the  President  be  requested  to  communicate  to  this 
House  the  number  of  officers,  of  different  grades,  who  have  been  re- 
tired or  dropped  from  the  army,  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of 
\he  act  for  ridding  the  army  of  ignorant,  disabled  and  incompetent 
officers." 

In  response,  I  have  the  honor  to  transmit  the  accompanying  list  of 
such  officers,  which  has  just  been  furnished  by  the  Adjutant  and  In- 
spector General,  from  the  records  of  his  office. 

Very  respectfully,  your  obedient  servant, 

JAMES  A.  SEDDON, 

Secretary  of  War. 


LETTER  FROM  THE  ADJT  k  INSPR  GENERAL. 

Adjutant  and  Inspector  General's  Office, 

May  21,  1864. 
Hon.  James  A.  Seddon, 

Secretary  of  War  : 

Sir  :  In  answer  to  your  letter  of  the  16th  of  January,  1864,  I  have 
the  honor  to  enclose  a  list  of  the  officers  who  have  been  retired  or 
dropped  from  the  army,  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  the  act 
for  ridding  the  army  of  ignorant,  disabled  and  incompetent  oflBcers,  to 
be  forwarded  to  the  House  of  Representatives,  in  accordance  with  a 
resolution  of  that  body,  a  copy  of  which  is  herewith  enclosed.  - 
I  have  the  honor  to  be,  your  obedient  servant, 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutartt  and  Inspector  General. 


Copy  of  a  Besolution  of  the  House  of  Represemtatives  of  the  \5th  of  Jan- 
uary, 1864 ; 

"  Resolved,  That  the  President  be  requested  to  communicate  to  this 
House  the  number  of  officers,  of  different  grades,  who  have  been  re- 
tired or  dropped  from  the  army,  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of 
the  act  for  ridding  the  army  of  ignorant,  disabled  and  incompetent 
officers." 

Official  copy : 

JOHN  WITHERS, 
Aisistant  Adjutant  General, 


Adjutant  and  Inspector  General's  Office, 

May  21,  1864. 


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The  following  is  a  list  of  officers  of  different  grades  who  have  been 
dropped  from  the  rolls  of  the  army,  in  accordance  with  the  provisions 
of  the  act  for  "  ridding  the  army  of  ignorant,  disabled  and  incompe- 
tent officers,"  by  orders  from  Adjutant  and  Inspector  General's  office: 

First.  Lieutenant  J.  M.  Terrill,  company  E,  forty-eighth  North 
Carolina  regiment,  October  21,  1862. 

Second  Lieutenant  0.  R.  Harrell,  company  E,  forty-eighth  North 
Carolina  regiment,  October  21,  1862. 

Captain  John  T.  Chambers,  company  I,  nineteenth  Georgia  regi- 
ment, October  28,  1862. 

Lieutenant  L.  A.  Nash,  company  C,  fourth  Georgia  regiment,  Oc- 
tober 29,  1862. 

Surgeon  O'llagan,  thirty-fifth  North  Carolina  regiment,  Novem* 
ber  1,  1862. 


Captain  Lefi  J.  Knight,  twenty- ninth  Georgia  regiment,  May  28, 
1863. 

Second  Lieutenant  Thomas  Brander,  company  B,  twenty-seventh 
Virginia  regiment,  June  10,  1863. 

Second  Lieutenant  A.  T,  Culpepper,  company  C,  sixteenth  Vir- 
ginia regiment,  July  31,  1863. 

Captain  J.  D.  McKinney,  company  E,  first  Florida  cavalry,  Au- 
gust 6,  1863, 

m^rst  Lieutenant  W.  G.  Stokely,  company  E,  first  Florida  cavalry, 
August  6,  1865. 

Second  Lieutenant  C.  D.  Craig,  company  E,  first  Florida  cavalry, 
August  6,  1863. 

First  Lieutenant  Michael  Doherty,  company  C,  nineteenth  Virginia 
battalion,  August  27,  1863. 

First  Lieutenant  P.  J.  Cummings,  company  D,  thirty-third  Ten- 
nessee regiment,  September  30,  1863. 

Second  Lieutenant  Marshall  Munroe,  company  F,  second  Virginia 
regiment,  December  1,  1863. 

Second  Lieutenant  J.  D.  Bryant,  company  B,  forty-ninth  Georgia 
regiment,  December  1,  1863. 

Captain  Thomas  M.  Gobble,  company  I,  forty-eighth  Virginia  reg- 
iment, December  1,  1863.  • 

First  Lieutenant  M.  T.  Swint,  company  C,  forty-ninth    Georgia 
.  regiment,  January  19,  1864. 

Lieutenant  L.  0.  Kirk,  company  K,  sixth  Louisiana  regiment,  Jan- 
uary 19,  1864. 

Assistant  Surgeon  George  Armstrong,  twenty-fifth  Virginia  regi- 
ment, January  23,  1864. 

Captain  T.  M.  Hewitt,  Assistant  Quartermaster,  Army  of  Northern 
Virginia,  April  14,  1864. 

Lieutenant  Calvin  Dickinson,  company  D,  tenth  North  Carolina 
battalion  of  artillery,  May  18,  1864. 

Captain  A.  Kilpatrick,  company  A,  thirty-second  x\labama  regi- 
ment, May  18,  1864. 

Second  Lieutenant  L.  D.  Alexander,  company  F,  sixteenth  North 
Carolina  regiment,  May  18,  1864. 

Second  Lieutenant  0.  C.  Bryan,  company  F,  forty-eighth  Virginia 
regiment,  May  18,  1864. 

Second  Lieutenant  J.  P.  Ray,  company  B,  sixteenth  North  Car- 
olina regiment,  May  18,  1864. 

Second  Lieutenant  John  H.  Sale,  company  B,  eigthteenth  Virginia 
battalion,  May  18,  1864. 

Second  Lieutenant  C.  R.  Walden,  company  E,  forty-ninth  Georgia 
regiment,  May  18,  1864. 

Second  Lieutenant  J.  T.  McGahee,  Patterson's  Alabama  cavalry, 
May  18,  1864. 
Oflicial:   • 

JOHN  WITHERS,  AssH  Adfl  GenH. 
Adjutant  and  Lnspector  General's  Office, 


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